Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to go through some of the sites that were purchased. In Goleen in west Cork, a lovely part of the country, €393,000 was paid for 0.82 ha. That is phenomenal money for west Cork. The second is Dripsey, where I come from myself, where over €500,000 was paid for 1.5 acres, which now has a value of €47,500. The third that really sticks out in my mind is the one for Sligo where €11 million was paid for 13 acres of land, the value of which is now estimated at €420,000. It sounds phenomenal that that kind of money was paid out without a clear plan for a reasonable period. This was before 2008, so more than 12 years have passed and none of that land has been used. How do we make local authorities accountable in that situation?